FR: Add option to set own interface names

[david-sieg]

Hi,

we ran into problem with interface name length.
There're some interfaces which reach length over 80 characters, so they are displayed cutted:
(due to limitation of 64 Char in field)

"vNIC 1 (tn-xyz|xy-XYZ-business-intelligence|epg-XYZ-XXX-xyXYZq_b"

Is there any switch to set own interface names, like "vNIC 'interface_number'".
Sync should set automatically (increase) 'interface_number'.

David

[bb-Ricardo]

Hi,

Interesting issue. No there is currently no option to do that.

Do you have a more precise example? Or multiple?

Just typing to come up with a better approach of keeping some information and enumerating the interfaces.

[david-sieg]

Hi Ricardo,

during sync, interfaces are discovered by their real names.
We use ACI, so interface names are long due to name conventions.

examples:
"vNIC 1 (tn-xyz|xy-XYZ-business-intelligence|epg-XYZ-XXX-xyXYZq_b"
"vNIC 2 (tn-xyz|xy-XYZ-business-intelligence|epg-XYZ-XXX-xyXYZq_b"

We need an switch:
use_custom_interface_prefix: true
custom_interface_prefix: 'VM_INT'

So discovery should create following interfaces for discovered VMs:

"VM_INT 1"
"VM_INT 2"
"VM_INT ..."

1, 2 and so on is index of interfaces.

David